ChristMMOs: League of Legends - Eggnog Health & Mana Potions

Merry ChristMMOs! This festive season, Gourmet Gaming will be celebrating with a selection of treats from your favourite MMOs to bring a little bit of gaming to your table this holiday season.

The League of Legends seasonal event is known as the “Snowdown Showdown”. During this time, many festive fares slip into the world with one of the regular changes being the trade-in of the traditional Health and Mana potions for ones of the Eggnog variety! Here in the UK, Eggnog isn’t very popular. So when I saw my chance to taste the drink that saturated my favourite Christmas cartoons and movies as a kid, I couldn’t turn it down.

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This recipe serves 4-6.

What you will need: A whisk, three mixing bowls, a piping bag and nozzle, and a fine grater.

Ingredients:

4 Eggs (Separated & Room Temperature)

75g / ⅓ Cup Caster/Superfine Sugar

500ml / 20 fl oz. Whole Milk

225ml / 1 Cup Double/Heavy Cream

85ml / 3 fl oz. Bourbon

2 Tablespoons Sugar

Fresh Nutmeg

Blue Food Colouring

1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder

To Garnish:

110ml / ½ Cup Double/Heavy Cream

1 Tablespoon Icing/Confectioners Sugar

Blue Food Colouring

1 Teaspoon Cocoa Powder

Fresh Nutmeg

Making the Garnish:

1. Whisk together the cream and icing/confectioners sugar until soft peaks form. Divide the cream in half. Add blue food colouring to one half, and cocoa powder to the other. Mix well and set the cream aside while you prepare the drinks

Making the Eggnog Potions:

1. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks until pale, then gradually add the sugar and continue to beat for about 5 minutes. Add the milk, cream and bourbon, a sprinkling of freshly grated nutmeg, and mix well.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form, then add the two tablespoons of sugar and continue to beat until the peaks stiffen. Whisk the egg whites into the prepared egg yolk mixture until well combined.
3. At this time, divide the mixture in two. One will become the Health potion, the other will be the Mana potion. To one mixture, add a dash of blue food colouring and mix. To the other, sieve in the cocoa powder and mix.
4. Pour the Eggnog Mana and Health potions into individual glasses, top with a piped swirl of corresponding whipped cream and a garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

I was apprehensive about making Eggnog as I don’t usually enjoy bourbon, but the sweet cream and the spiced nutmeg cut the flavour just perfectly. Chilled in the fridge, this drink is both refreshing and warming. So whether you’re in need of health or in need of mana, I have discovered Eggnog is always the answer.

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